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[mail_vijayar]

Need a small clarification......

Virtual switches (standard) are layer 2 devices, is there any particular reason why we cannot have 2 NIC's connected to the same vSwitch except for security reasons (STP).

Regards,

Vijay

[a_p_]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. However you can have multiple NIC's (uplinks) on a vSwitch. Where did you read this?

André

[a_p_]

... to add to my previous post, the limit of uplinks on a vSwitch is 32.

see http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/virtual_networking_concepts.pdf

André

[mail_vijayar]

Oops was trying to say...

Why we cannot connect 2 vSwitches to a single physical NIC.

Regards,

Vijay

[a_p_]

Can you explain what you are trying to achieve with this setup?

André

[mail_vijayar]

Nothing just was curious about why the restriction, but was going through couple of documents seems like it was due to STP; please correct me if im wrong here.

Regads,

Vijay